Essayist Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs,… — Mary Ellen Mark
Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, itâ€™s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.Â We donâ€™t lust after very many things… — Elisabeth Eaves
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be… — Edward Bernays
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter… — Elwyn Brooks White
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. — Elwyn Brooks White
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist. — Richard Turner
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true… — William Ernest Henley
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. — Jose Saramago
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. — Jose Saramago
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,… — William Faulkner
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth

Who Wrote These Essayist Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Essayist Quotes as follows: